Today is Sunday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2005. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2005. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.
In 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- is chartered. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco. In 1930, Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif. In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. In 1958, Pope Pius the XII dies. (He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII.) In 1962, Uganda wins autonomy from British rule. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1985, the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.
October 9, 1980: Charles M. Abernethy, manager of the General Motors car assembly plant at Lordstown, officially announces that the plant will begin producing G.M.'s J-car, a fuel-efficient, front-wheel drive car, in 1981.
The annual cost to citizens to support state legislatures range from 66 cents a person in North Carolina to $20 in Alaska. Ohio Ranks 11th at $1.04; Pennsylvania ranks third at $2.95.
The third shift at the machine shop and one of two shifts at the foundry of the Deming Division of the Crane Co. in Salem are cut back, leaving about 70 of the 600 workers at the Salem plant without jobs.
Sharon City Council narrowly passes a bill that will require city homeowners to hire only master craftsmen or journeymen working under master craftsmen to do plumbing, heating, electrical, sheet metal or air conditioning work. Workmen coming into the city would be required to purchase a $100 work permit to be certified.
October 9, 1965: The Public Library's North Side branch is dedicated during an open house. The library is dedicated to the late John H. Clarke, associate justice of the Supreme Court and the second president of the Reuben McMillan Free Library Association.
Nellie Lou Weingart is crowned 1965 Homecoming Queen at Western Reserve High School.
High winds topple a large tree at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, 646 Bryson St., damaging three cars -- one of them a convertible owned by Donald Constantini, heavily.
The Carbon Limestone Co. quarry and plant near Lowellville are struck by the United Mine Workers Local 14712, idling about 150 employees.
October 9, 1955: J.L. Mauthe, president of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., urges government relief in its tax policies for the American steel industry, which is attempting to hold down prices and attract financing for expansion.
Arthur H. Motley, publisher of Parade magazine and one of America's "Twelve Master Salesmen," will be the keynote speaker at Youngstown Community Chest's kickoff dinner launching its 37th annual drive.
The Youngstown Astronomy Club is looking for a new site for its prize possession, a 16-inch telescope, the largest between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The telescope has been in Boardman, but the owner of the property wants it moved.
Ralph B. Kennedy, president of the Berg Pretzel Co., Leetonia, since 1935, has watched the business of his company grow from $78,000 annually the year he took it over to $2.5 million in 1954. It is the biggest industry in Leetonia, which was once one of Columbiana County's most important industrial communities, with two blast furnaces.
October 9, 1930: A resolution demanding immediate action on the survey of the Beaver-Mahoning-Shenango waterways project by the Army engineers is approved by the Ohio Valley Improvement Association at its 36th annual convention at Cincinnati.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis delivers the principal address at the dedication of a new $12 million wrought iron plant of the A.M. Byers Co. at Ambridge, Pa., and makes an appeal for the middle-aged workingman who has gradually been deprived of employment through the adoption of labor-saving devices.
The driver of an intrastate bus that struck a trolley car in Youngstown injuring 12 persons is fined $100 for reckless driving and given five days in jail. Charles Barclay, 28, of Bridgeville, Pa., pleaded guilty to the charges.